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Los Angeles, CA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Drafted purchase agreements, closing documents, and escrow instructions for acquisitions and dispositions of commercial properties on behalf of Fortune 20 company
• Prepared and negotiated leases, lease amendments, and subleases as both landlord and tenant on behalf of Fortune 50 and Fortune 100 companies
• Acted as primary California lease negotiator for a leading developmental, behavioral health and education non-profit
• Researched and authored white paper on perfection of collateral assignments of security interests in negotiable instruments for creditors’ committee in a billion-dollar bankruptcy
• Reviewed and analyzed interaction between CC&R, easement, and lease agreements for a major shopping center with multiple Fortune 50 tenants to assist landlord with redevelopment plans
• Evaluated title policies and engaged title companies to ensure compliance with lender loan requirements

• Drafted assumption and origination documents for commercial mortgage backed securities loans; handled all post-closing paperwork including securitization questionnaire to pool trustee
• Represented master servicer on multiple pre-negotiated and non-negotiated parcel releases
• Collaborated directly with various lender clients on review and documentation of equity transfers related to securitized financings
• Acted as lead attorney on a multi-firm closing of a general partnership sale related to a multifamily bond transaction
• Handled negotiations on a product license agreement between a major movie studio and a national chain store for a cross-marketing campaign
• Wrote and submitted Freedom of Information Act requests for the National Center for Transgender Equality with the United States State Department

Los Angeles, California, US

• Coordinated the drafting of loan documents for real estate and personal property secured transactions
• Handled complex title matters for policies on term and construction loans secured by real estate; engaged title companies, reviewed title reports, and formulated lender’s instructions
• Prepared and reviewed amendments to corporate governance documents
• Assisted institutional lenders in workouts of defaulted loans and non-judicial foreclosures
• Reviewed and analyzed loans and titles in sale of client’s $1.1 billion in California bank assets in loan portfolio buyout
• Researched and drafted memoranda on usury, complex jurisdiction, choice of law, and domestication of judgment issues; researched duty of lenders as third-party beneficiaries in anticipation of appeal

• Chief executive of the oldest law journal in the United States dedicated to constitutional law
• Managed staff of 74 second- and third-year editors
• Oversaw publishing of four issues, totaling 23 articles and over 1000 pages
• Developed and directed annual symposium with Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, receiving local and national media attention
• Handled all budgetary matters for the Quarterly, a 503(c) non-profit organization
• Supervised second-year academic note-writing program

Los Angeles, California, US

• Conducted extensive legal research including compostion of internal memoranda on usury, complex jurisdiction, choice of law, and domestication of judgment issues
• Strategized and attended multiple depositions
• Drafted and reviewed corporate formation documents
• Researched duty of lenders as third-party beneficiaries in anticipation of appeal
• Prepared pleadings, including answers and bills of particulars
• Responded to discovery

• Authored internal memoranda concerning recommendations for en banc votes
• Drafted memoranda suggesting changes on soon-to-be-released opinions
• Researched First Amendment, administrative, and criminal procedure case law for pending appeals

• Drafted pleadings: answers to complaints, notices to admit, discovery, and responses to interrogatories
• Researched case law and briefed decisions for use in motion revisions
• Produced and updated case reviews for use during settlement discussions, trials, and motion hearings
• Represented company at workers’ compensation hearings and advised managing partner of outcomes

New York, US

• Compiled real-time statistics for NCAA/NFL games; provided information for use by on-air talent
• Selected for three seasons as one of eight NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament statisticians
• Time-logged live games and post-game interviews for use during in-game and post-game highlight reels

New York, New York, US

• Managed sports section of 10,000 daily circulation newspaper; member of Managing Board
• Supervised and trained staff of 30 writers, associate and deputy editors; monitored journalistic ethics
• Produced more than 200 bylines; fencing, softball, cross country beat writer
• Lead analyst and member of Ivy League football and basketball pre-season media polls
• Bi-weekly column – “Full-Court Press” – covering and evaluating Ivy League players, teams, and policies

New York, New York, US

• Reviewed and revised contracts between warehouses, food suppliers, and food distributors
• Consulted with warehouses, food suppliers, and food distributors around the world to obtain and evaluate current HACCP and C-TPAT documentation as required by the United States government
• Bolstered development of cataloging software for foreign and domestic goods sold by Bruno Scheidt, Inc.

J.D.

B.A., Economics-Philosophy